Early Childhood - Play
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- Created on: 29-04-19 19:18
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2. Outline Piaget's (1983) cognitive perspective of play
- Play is a vital part of building up a set of schemas to lead to development, it facilitates learning and helps to assimilate new material into existing schemas
- Play helps children to learn by recreating what they have learned and being able to transform short term memory into long term memory
- Play helps children to enhance their social connections and come closer to those that they play with
- Play is cathartic and can help children to release negative feelings caused by traumatic events and help to overcome a trauma
3. What are the characteristics of play in the EYFS
- Playing and exploring with creating and thinking critically and physical play
- Playing and exploring and physical play
- Playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically
- Playing and exploring with a mix of submissive and active learning
4. What are the key features of play according to Hughes (2003)
- Freedom of choice, personal enjoyment and guidance from a more developed individual
- Freedom of choice, personal enjoyment and focus on the activity rather than the outcome
- Freedom of choice, personal enjoyment and being distracted completely by it
- Freedom of choice, personal fulfilment and guidance from a more developed individual
5. How does Sutton-Smith define play?
- Play is educational and offers cognitive benefits in order to develop the intellect of the player
- Play is ambiguous, difficult to define and more difficult to capture than definitions suggest
- Play is individual to the player and can be anything they want it to be
- Playing is a social activity which prepares an individual for their future social interactions
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